novelaction Chapter 1241 The Showdown: This is Part 1 of the Plan
Chapter 1241 The Showdown: This is Part 1 of the Plan
"Lord of Wuwei City...you...I..."
Faced with the gaze of Duke Wuwei, Pei Yanzhou subconsciously felt flustered. After all, the way Duke Wuwei had captured the assassin was too terrifying, causing even the usually aloof Pei Yanzhou to become incoherent.
“Pei Yanzhou, my Wuwei City has always respected your Mohist Divine Path and treated your Mohist people with courtesy. But now, you have brought the Sacred Wax Stone to collude with assassins in an attempt to destroy my Wuwei City.”
"I am very curious about this matter. Is it the idea of your Mo family, or just yours alone?"
Duke Wuwei spoke slowly and deliberately, his voice filled with murderous intent.
Upon hearing this, Pei Yanzhou immediately sensed something was amiss. What did he mean by conspiring with assassins to destroy Wuwei City? When did these assassins have anything to do with him?
"Lord of Wuwei City, what nonsense are you spouting? Which eye of yours saw that this assassin was related to me?"
He wasn't stupid; he immediately understood the Duke of Wuwei's sinister intentions.
This is an attempt to pin the blame on me, even making me bear the sole responsibility for the destruction of the city. Thinking deeper, they clearly want to keep me here permanently so they can openly attack me!
Pei Yanzhou naturally wanted to get rid of such a charge as soon as possible.
only……
When you come out of the latrine with mud stuck to your crotch, it's not so easy to shake it off.
“I saw it with both eyes, you and this assassin are in cahoots! Otherwise, how could this assassin know the locations of all your mechanical beasts that possess the Holy Wax Stone?”
"This is because……"
"Furthermore, why didn't you stop the famous white horse from shattering those sacred wax stones? Instead, you repeatedly let the mechanical beasts get close to it?"
"You're talking nonsense, when did my mechanical beast..."
"Also, you just happened to arrive, and that white horse from the Ming family was hiding in the courtyard. Only your mechanical beasts that infiltrated could have done that, which means that the white horse from the Ming family came with you!"
"for this I……"
"Hmph, when you brought the Holy Wax Stone to my Wuwei City, you already planned to destroy it. However, in order to avoid taking responsibility for the destruction of the city, you conspired with a famous master named Bai Ma to partner with you. You certainly played a good game!"
"You...you...you're spouting nonsense!" Pei Yanzhou was almost frantic. In just a few words, this accusation was slapped on him, leaving him no room to defend himself.
"Slanderous accusations?" Duke Wuwei roared, "If you didn't intend to destroy my Wuwei City, why did you bring the Sacred Wax Stone into the city and even infiltrate such a close location? Do you really think I, the city lord, am a three-year-old child who can be easily fooled?"
Faced with such a forceful opponent, Pei Yanzhou could only soften his tone and explain, "I...I didn't! I brought those sacred wax stones only to make you wary and not hinder my actions. I never intended to break the sacred wax stones!"
However, not only did Duke Wuwei not believe his explanation, but the others in the city also did not believe it, and even Zhao Ci and some other people from the Mo Family Temple in Wuwei City had doubts.
indeed.
What a coincidence.
If Duke Wuwei hadn't said anything, they probably wouldn't have thought much of it, but with his words, the more they thought about it, the closer they felt to the truth.
"Bah! I thought Pei Yanzhou was a man of courage and integrity, but it turns out he's nothing but a treacherous villain. He pretends to be innocent, but in reality, he's been planning to destroy my Wuwei City on the spot!"
"This must be the idea of the Mohist sect. These damned things actually want to destroy one of our cities! That's fifty million people! How dare they!"
"The karma of fifty million people is too great. He dares not admit it, so he resorted to this method. He deserves to die. Kill him, and kill all the members of the Mo family!"
"..."
Roars began to emerge from the crowd, and everyone's gaze toward Pei Yanzhou was filled with disgust and murderous intent. Even the gazes toward Zhao Ci and the others were quite hostile.
Seeing all this, Pei Yanzhou couldn't help but look at the statue in the main hall of the Mo Clan Temple. He saw that the statue's radiance was extremely dim, and even some fine cracks were beginning to appear.
Pei Yanzhou's heart skipped a beat.
This is……
The power of will backfires!
Each of the major deities in the Three Enclosures and Sea of Evil has its own temple. The purpose of these temples is to receive the power of incense offerings and prayers, thereby strengthening the temple.
Even if a city is destroyed, as long as faith continues until the moment of its demise, it can still reap a large amount of spiritual power. In fact, the spiritual power given by a destroyed city at the last moment will be extremely abundant, even stronger than the harvest of several decades or hundreds of years in normal times.
but……
The power of will is always a double-edged sword.
If the people have faith, the power of incense offerings and prayers will naturally be inexhaustible, continuously supporting the Mohist divine path. This will make the Mohist divine path more stable and allow the strength of its powerful members to continuously increase.
But if one loses the trust of the people, or is even despised by them.
The power of those wishes would immediately begin to backfire on the temple. The backlash from the wishes of fifty million people is no small matter for any god.
Bringing the Sacred Wax Stone to Wuwei City was already a risk. But he knew in his heart that as long as he didn't really intend to break the Sacred Wax Stone, and the greatest pressure was borne by the Wuwei City Lord, it wouldn't cause a backlash of willpower.
But now.
In the short time it took for the city lord of Wuwei to utter a few words, the entire city's attention turned to him, and the pressure was overwhelming.
The backlash from the power of one's vows is already beginning to show.
If he cannot turn the situation around, he will become the sinner of the entire Mohist school of thought!
"I... this action was my personal act and has nothing to do with the Mo Family Temple!" Seeing that the backlash of the will was about to occur, Pei Yanzhou hurriedly spoke up.
"Personal actions? Heh!" Sui Xing just sneered: "Didn't you receive orders from your Mo Clan leader to destroy Wuwei City and take me away? When did it become your personal actions?"
Wow!
These words caused an uproar throughout the city.
The arrival of Mohist experts one after another has attracted a lot of attention, but no one really knew about the Mohist Grand Master's Token. Hearing this, their disgust for the Mohist divine path has intensified.
Meanwhile, the cracks on the statues in the main hall of the Mohist temple increased instantly, no longer just fine lines, but several clearly visible cracks appeared!
"Don't listen to his nonsense!"
"The Grand Master only ordered us to take this magical treasure; he did not intend to destroy Wuwei City!"
Pei Yanzhou hurriedly explained, but no one believed him, a man who wanted to destroy Wuwei City, and he couldn't possibly stop the cracks in the Mo Family Temple from multiplying. He wanted Zhao Jijiu and the others to help prove it, but they just shook their heads.
“Our Mohist Temple has sent people to attack Wuwei City twice, and the people’s trust has already plummeted to rock bottom. It is not something we can salvage with just a few words.”
Now, Pei Yanzhou was in despair.
He cannot be the eternal sinner of the Mohist school!
"This was all planned. The sacred wax stones I brought were carefully selected by me, and it has been confirmed that they do not have the power to plunder!"
"That's right, that's exactly it. I never intended to harm you. I knew that there was a problem with the Holy Light Core in your Wuwei City, so I specially selected this batch of Holy Wax Stones to help you!"
Left with no other choice, he could only make things up.
Duke Wuwei angrily rebuked, "Nonsense! No one can tell whether the Sacred Wax Stone is good or bad. The reason we escaped unscathed this time is simply because my benefactor, young friend Gu Xiu, is lucky and brought good fortune to Wuwei City. What does it have to do with you?"
In fact, this time, even Duke Wuwei himself sensed that something was wrong.
But unlike others who thought it was Pei Yanzhou's skill, the first thing that came to his mind was Sui Xing's confident words at the time. Although he didn't understand why, he didn't think it was Pei Yanzhou's skill.
but……
Duke Wuwei didn't believe Pei Yanzhou had the ability, but the others in the city were more or less skeptical. After all, Pei Yanzhou had brought the Sacred Wax Stone. Rather than believing it was luck, it was more likely that Pei Yanzhou could see that there was nothing wrong with the Sacred Wax Stone.
Pei Yanzhou noticed that the statues of the Mo family's divine path had stopped cracking, and immediately continued speaking without hesitation:
"I have long since mastered the method of distinguishing sacred wax stones, and I have secretly conducted experiments before. Only after I was absolutely certain that I had chosen this batch of sacred wax stones to come to Wuwei City!"
"This was all part of my plan."
"So, that assassin really had nothing to do with me. I just intended to scare the Lord of Wuwei City, and I never intended to actually destroy the city."
They were all made up on the spot.
But at times like this, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and keep making things up.
Fortunately, these convincing words finally dispelled the resentment of the Mo family temple. Although the city lord of Wuwei was still disdainful and even wanted to capture him, at least most people in the city believed his words.
Seeing that public sentiment had stabilized, Pei Yanzhou chose to evacuate immediately.
There's no way to save my senior sister.
Even the shattered stars can't be taken away.
There was nothing he could do. Without the sacred wax stone he used as a threat, he was no match for Duke Wuwei. In fact, if the people in the city hadn't been intimidated by his ability to identify the sacred wax stone, he wouldn't have been able to escape safely.
This operation at the Mohist Temple has once again ended in failure.
Sui Xing was a little sullen: "That damned, treacherous little man, how could he be so slippery as an eel? Now he's just gotten away like this, and even stole Gu's credit. How despicable, absolutely despicable!"
Duke Wuwei, however, calmed down and asked why Suixing was so certain that the Holy Wax Stone would not have any problems.
"What else could it be? Gu is the luckiest person in the world. To put it simply, the heavens and the world are on his side. As long as you befriend him, any gamble with luck will never go wrong."
"Really...is that true?"
"Hey, do you think your older brother would lie to you?"
The Duke of Wuwei ignored Suixing's desire to become his elder brother, and a playful smile appeared on his face:
"Since you are so certain, then even if Pei Yanzhou manages to escape this time, he will definitely not have a good outcome."
Sui Xing's eyes lit up: "Huh, you don't mean to..."
"I plan to give Pei Yanzhou a good publicity stunt, so that the entire Sanyuan Niehai knows that Pei Yanzhou has this ability." But then, the Duke of Wuwei gave a sinister smile.
"By the time."
"Perhaps he can bring us some surprises."